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...present system of electing members, termed "bickering," lies near the bottom of the entire difficulty. Under its terms, the various clubs single out those students whom they most desire to have as members. There are two weeks of "Open House" in February during which time second term sophomores, and juniors left out in the previous year's bicker, can visit any and all clubs...
versity and through the first fall bicker ever held, this term have swollen the total number of club-members...
...beating odds favor the re-election of James Michael Curley as mayor. Running for his seventh time, Curley has had four previous terms as mayor as well as one session of the Massachusetts governorship and two terms as Congressman in Washington. His past term as mayor was unique in that he passed five months of it in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. Curley has built up a large personal following, though hardly a machine, that will remain solidly behind him next Tuesday. The minimum estimate of his vote is around 80,000 while, if he wins, he will probably...
During Curley's term, however, there existed an "abatements racket," whereby certain property owners were given rebates on their assessment by dubious re-evaluations. If a landlord wishes to get an abatement on his assessment in Boston, he applies to the City Assessor's office and pays the fee demanded. Whether or not the abatement is granted, that fee is attached to the property owner's assessment from that year on; the money apparently goes directly to the Board of Assessors each year. That's one sources of excess intake in the Assessment Division. But, there is a further explicitly...
Someone must replace James M. Curley as mayor of Boston. Not only has Boston lost much of its prestige by having a mayor who spent five months of his previous term in a federal penitentiary, but also it has suffered an enormous loss in dollars and cents from Curley's corrupt administration. Curley practices the philosophy of government that measures its own success by the quantity, never the quality, of the people it employs; disregarding cost, Curley has filled the city's departments with incompetents, sometimes vagrants, merely to keep his employment record high when the election comes around...